If you have a look around the web (using your favourite Bing search engine), for virtualising/virtualizing SAP, you’ll find a lot of links for virtualising that workload on VMware, but what about Hyper-V?  Do SAP support Hyper-V as a platform? ...

We shipped the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately from this location . The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10. For more information, read the...

Selecting the right server hardware for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 deployment becomes much easier when you know the product team's scalability and performance guidelines. In this webcast, we review the product team's guidance for the processor and...

If you are still running the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), beginning March 1, 2010, your PC will start to shut down every two hours in preparation for Windows 7 RC expiration on June 1, 2010. To avoid interruption, you will need to reinstall an earlier...

If you’ve been following my coverage of DPM 2010 over the last few months ( here , and here ), you’ll be pleased to learn that the Release Candidate build has been declared, and released to the web, on the Microsoft Connect website. If you’re interested...

Can you help us test the newest Solution Accelerator? The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets customers track application and operating system deployments, security updates, the health status of computers, and IT compliance...

If separate NIC drivers are offered by an OEM manufacturer for use in Windows PE vs. the full Windows OS, the Task Sequence may fail if the Windows OS being deployed is Windows Vista or newer (Vista, Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2) and if it is being deployed...

On Windows 7 the “Client for NFS” service behaves some way differently than its earlier versions on SFU 3.5 and on Windows 2003 R2. The difference is once “Client for NFS” service is stopped using services console; you cannot start it using Services console;...

With the release of the bulletins for February 2010 , this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued February 4, 2010. For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins...

Hi, We build Solution Accelerators for Microsoft. Right now my team is focused on dashboards. The Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps you keep mission-critical, line of business applications up and running. The...

This month we add another bot family to MSRT – Win32/Pushbot . Pushbot is, in many ways, an “old school” bot. It is controlled through IRC, it can distribute itself through several different channels and its source code is more or less open (for those...

See how you can use the Exchange Management Shell to create a user account with a mailbox . Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS...

The first Security Bulletin for Hyper-V is out at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-010.mspx . Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-010 - Important Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service (977894)...

The Configuration Manager writing team is very excited to announce the release of the following SuperFlows: Software Updates Synchronization SuperFlow: Provides the detailed dataflow for the software updates synchronization process, additional resources...

In Windows 7, the BITSAdmin tool has been deprecated and instead you should use Windows PowerShell. Here’s an overview of the cmdlets you need to know . Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS...

Last week SPECOPS Software's roadshow "Changes, Challenges and Choices When rolling out Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7" made its way to the Microsoft Alpharetta office. The featured speaker was Jeremy Moskowitz of GPanswers.com . ...

This week’s webinar is the first of several SharePoint Online webinars that you requested. In this week’s webinar, Ryan Phillips will provide you with insights into the BPOS-S SharePoint Online environment, what you can customize and how to do it. Ryan...

Auditing lets you track what’s happening with Exchange Server. You can collect information about logons and logoffs, permission use, and much more. Any time an action that you’ve configured for auditing occurs, it is written to the system’s security log,...

Just an FYI that today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. With the release of the bulletins for February 2010, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin...

Normally I don't spend a lot of time blogging on MP updates… unless they are a really big deal, but since the MP catalog is so messed up right now with Pinpoint, I will be blogging on these until it gets fixed, at least to a usable standard. I am also...

Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they...

Comme annoncé jeudi, février 2010 égale le record d'octobre 2009 avec 13 nouveaux bulletins de sécurité, dont 5 critiques. Synthèse : Synthèse en français Synthèse en anglais Annonce du MSRC Détail des bulletins : Bulletin de sécurité Microsoft MS10-003...

Man sucht etwas, liest verschiedenes und stolpert über einiges, was interessant sein kann, zumindest für den einen oder anderen… So auch dieser Punkt. Bei der Suche nach Informationen zur Programmierung des Windows Virtual PC (siehe Post von vorhin) habe...

MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. In the post on Thursday,...

Buried in a message in the CIO listserv today was a reference to this video on the challenges of staffing a help desk and supporting multiple desktop OS’s. In this short video on ZDNet, the Director of Desktop Support for CNET, Justine Nguyen, does a...